Graduate school

A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees (i.e. master's degrees and Ph.D. degrees) with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate (bachelor's) degree.[1][2] A distinction is typically made between graduate schools (where courses of study do not provide training for a particular profession) and professional schools, which offer specialized advanced degrees in professional fields such as medicine, business, or law.Many universities award graduate degrees; a graduate school is not necessarily a separate institution. While the term "graduate school" is common in North America, "postgraduate education" is commonly used in English-speaking countries other than the United States (Australia, Canada (which uses both terms), India, New Zealand and the UK) to refer to the spectrum of education beyond a bachelor's degree. Those attending graduate schools are called "graduate students," or in British English, "postgraduate students," and, colloquially, "postgraduates." Degrees awarded to graduate students include master's degrees, doctoral degrees, and other postgraduate qualifications such as graduate certificates and professional degrees.Producing original researc